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floating bones dives into the traumas of homelessness, heartbreak, and loneliness through the creative processes of writing and drawing, meditation, and observing the natural world. The result is an elixir of healing and reconnection. "Rae Diamond's collection shows how reality, even belonging, is 'poised for adaptation.' With exquisite form that turns language into sleight of hand, this genre-defying work shook all the language in my body u...

ten-cent flower & other territories explores what is lost in lineage, translation, transaction, and seeks reclamation through mapping. Through etymologies of place names and monuments and godheads to navigating complex geographies of mother/daughter, lover/other, colonizer/colonized, from ledger of transgressions to passage through birth canal, with quiet defiances against autocorrect, capitalization. It is a collection of constellation, origi...

This collection documents a selection of the creative works generated at Poetry Scramble and features new work from 16 of First Matter Press's legacy editors, authors, and artists. Inside you'll find community-crafted erasures, exquisite corpse, human magnetic poetry, Mad Libs-style poems, centos, and collages, plus new writing and art from: Rae Diamond, ash good, Lauren Paredes, Jessica E. Pierce, Emily Moon, Rachel Mulder, Xylophone Mykland...

In times of crisis when our faculty for language fails, we wait for the oracle to speak in other modes - through visions, memories, in languages of our past and future. Secret messages rise to guide us from a fractured state to a place of agency. In Sonya Wohletz's collection One Row After / Bir Sira Sonra the reader accompanies the narrator on a mystical journey beyond rows of language, where the void closes in. Yet above it all, a five point...

When the body becomes a monument of loss, the self must navigate a vast internal space, not on the world's timeline, but in its own circadian cadences. Riley Danvers' collection Even the Air, Too Heavy wayfinds through the emptiness of miscarriage with words and experimental forms that examine the vacated, the absent, the lost. What is not on the page is as painful as the recounting. The autonomous physiology of the body and the sterile techni...

Stories for When the Wolves Arrive is both an academic and psychological exploration into the deeper themes behind our best-known fairy tales. This poetry collection examines feminism, anti-capitalism, trauma, and healing within the folktale framework and leaves no stone from the path unturned.

In the first poem of this collection, Emily Moon shows us Weldon Kees at his typewriter, making art 'for a future that looks/as empty and bleak/asthe present'-thereby flashing Kees out of the mid-twentieth century into our time. Here are the haze of cigarette smoke, the taste of whiskey, jazz on the soundtrack, walk-ons by Pope Francis and Frida Kahlo, and locations chosen or invented by Moon, the poet-director. Here is her version of Kees' sh...

Electric . . . threaded with gods and angels, earthquakes and asteroids, and ever-present visitors from the kingdom Animalia. Like the many species of wasps that inhabit these pages, Pierce's writing is attentive, sharp, and paper-winged. I was taken in by every atom of these poems, feeling, as I read, 'My heart catching / on all their hearts.'" -Brittney Corrigan, author of Daughters

A lovely collection of divinatory symbols masquerading as poems, in Otherwise, Magic, Lauren Paredes beckons us into her world where the paradox of modern life combines with fairy tale. She shrouds us in beautiful language, gentle rhythm and a wide-eyed wonder. We, like the speaker, find spiritual meaning in 'the only newborn to board this plane, ' 'the taste of merlot and party-soft cheese' and always, always, the celestial influence of the M...